William Liebenberg

William Liebenberg

Solution Architect / Software Engineer / Public Speaker

Melbourne, Australia
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SpendOps with Azure Cosmos DB

As developers, we have a direct cost impact at every stage of the traditional DevOps life-cycle. So much that we can label this the SpendOps life-cycle.

spendops,  azure,  cosmosdb,  automation,  tests,  testing
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KEDA - Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling

KEDA provides event-driven autoscaling to containers running on an AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster.

KEDA,  scaling,  AKS,  azure,  announcement
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.NET 5

.NET 5 was announced at Microsoft Build 2019. Check out my own Microsoft Build 2019 review. With .NET 5 we will be able to write apps that…

.net,  dotnet,  announcement
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Azure SQL Database Serverless (preview)

Serverless SQL Databases are useful in scenarios where you're application load is intermittent and unpredictable. You only pay for what you use.

azure,  sql,  serverless,  compute,  cold-start,  autoscale
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Durable Functions v2.0 (alpha preview) - Durable Entities

Another exciting announcement from the Azure Functions team at Microsoft Build 2019 was Durable Functions v2.0 (alpha preview) with support for Durable Entities and being able to use alternative Storage Providers.

durable functions,  durable entities,  orleans,  redis
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Azure Functions v2 - Dependency Injection

Azure Functions v2 now provides built-in Dependency Injection. This new Dependency Injection feature will help us write cleaner, better abstracted and easier to test Azure Functions.

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Microsoft Build 2019

I have returned from Microsoft Build 2019 in Seattle. I'm very excited as it was the first time attending Build. It was an amazing 3 day experience delivered by Microsoft that was jammed full of technical sessions, new announcements, product expositions and lots of awesome people!

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I'm speaking at SSW Azure Superpowers

I am honoured to take over the SSW Azure Superpowers Tour from the illustrious Adam Stephensen and fabulous Thiago Passos. Check out the…

azure,  appservice,  cosmosdb,  azureadb2c,  b2c,  logicapps,  devops,  ai,  cognitiveServices,  bots
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Reaching into your On-Prem services using Azure Hybrid Connections

Azure Hybrid Connections can be used to help you connect your Cloud Applications or Microservices to existing on-premise APIs.

azure,  hybridconnections,  azurefunctions,  api